Change in screen saver security password request

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PDACPA

For some reason, before when my screen save was up and I moved the
mouse or hit a key, the password request screen would show up on the
screen with my user ID and the curor was in the password field. If I
typed my password, it would let me in, if you just hit enter it would
say wrong password. This was all fine.

Now however, when I move the mouse or hit a key, the screen saver
security screen has changed and says that the computer is protected and
you must hit CTRL ALT DEL. When you do that, you now get the screen i
described above. This requires extra key strokes (and two hands) and I
have no idea how it got changed.

Can anyone tell me how to put it back to the old way?

Thanks

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For some reason, before when my screen save was up and I moved the
mouse or hit a key, the password request screen would show up on the
screen with my user ID and the curor was in the password field. If I
typed my password, it would let me in, if you just hit enter it would
say wrong password. This was all fine.

Now however, when I move the mouse or hit a key, the screen saver
security screen has changed and says that the computer is protected
and you must hit CTRL ALT DEL. When you do that, you now get the
screen i described above. This requires extra key strokes (and two
hands) and I have no idea how it got changed.

Can anyone tell me how to put it back to the old way?

Thanks

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I'm not 100% certain but it's probably this...

Start
Run
Type "control userpasswords2" without the quotes
Hit enter
Second tab (advanced)
Bottom - Require CTRL + ALT + DEL
Untick that
Click okay

That *should* be the reason that it's asking for it when coming out of
screen saver mode...

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